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FRESENIUS, KARL REMIGIUS (1818-1897)

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FRESENIUS, KARL See also:REMIGIUS (1818-1897) , See also:German chemist, was See also:born at See also:Frankfort-on-See also:Main on the 28th of See also:December 1818. After spending some See also:time in a See also:pharmacy in his native See also:town, he entered See also:Bonn University in 1840, and a See also:year later migrated to See also:Giessen, where he acted as assistant in See also:Liebig's laboratory, and in 1843 became assistant See also:professor. In 1845 he was appointed to the See also:chair of See also:chemistry, physics and technology at the See also:Wiesbaden Agricultural Institution, and three years later he became the first director of the chemical laboratory which he induced the See also:Nassau See also:government to establish at that See also:place. Under his care this laboratory continuously increased in See also:size and popularity, a school of pharmacy being added in 1862 (though given up in 1877) and an agricultural See also:research laboratory in 1868. Apart from his administrative duties Fresenius occupied himself almost exclusively with See also:analytical chemistry, and the fullness and accuracy of his See also:text-books on that subject (of which that on qualitative See also:analysis first appeared in 1841 and, that on quantitative in 1846) soon rendered them See also:standard See also:works. Many of his See also:original papers were published in the Zeitschrift fits analytische Chemie, which he founded in 1862 and continued to edit till his See also:death. He died suddenly at Wiesbaden on the 11th of See also:June 1897. In 1881 he handed over the directorship of the agricultural research station to his son, Remigius Heinrich Fresenius (b. 1847), who was trained under H. See also:Kolbe at See also:Leipzig. Another son, Theodor Wilhelm Fresenius (b. 1856), was educated at See also:Strassburg and occupied various positions in the Wiesbaden laboratory.

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